Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

B. D. SCOTT. TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 415,222. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

WITNESSES c. ,k/z

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT D. SCOTT, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,222, dated November 19, 1889. Application filed September 28, 1889. Serial No. 325,439- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, county of Oakland, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Two-lVheeled Vehicles; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention is designed to produce a roadcart in which the rear end of the body shall be supported by the axle and independent of the shafts, and in such a manner that it may be adjusted to a higher or lower level, as desired.

It consists of a combination of devices and appliances hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a rear elevation of a portion of a cart illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a portion of a shaft illustrating one feature of my invention. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. & represents a rear elevation of a portion of a shaft illustrating a variation of my invention.

In carrying out my in\'cntion,A represents the axle.

'% is the shaft.

C is the semielliptic spring which supports the body, and I) a suitable support to which the spring is directly attached and which is in turn attached to the body.

E is a suitable standard rigidly-attached to the axle by means of the bolts e and extending up adjacent to the rear ends of the shafts. This standard is provided on its upper end with a series of hooks E E E, and these hooks are so arranged that each successive hook will project beyond the verticalline of the hook next below it. Thus the hook E projects beyond the vertical line of the hook E and the hook projects beyond the vertical line of the hook E.

F is a suitable clevis engaged to the end of the semi-elliptic spring by the bolts f, and engaged with this clevis is a suitable link G, adapted. to engage with the hook. It will thus be seen that the semi-elliptic spring, and consequently the body, is supported entirely from the axle, and that by means of the hooks the body may be adjustgzd to ahigheror lower level, as desired, and by arranging the hooks one back of the other, as shown, any friction or contact between the link and the hook next below the hook to which it is engaged is prevented, and a free and easy action is always insured. Of course, the hooks may be either open toward the shafts, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or they may be opened away from the shafts, as shown in Fig. at, and, while I prefer the former construction yet I would be understood as including either form in my invention.

WVhat I claim is- 1. In a road-cart, the combination, with the axle and asemi-elliptic spring for supporting the body, of a standard extending up from the the axle, and a series of hooks on said standard, to which the end of said spring is e11- gaged, each successive one of. said hooks arranged to project beyond the vertical line of the hook next below it, substantially as described.

2. In a road-cart,the combination, with the axle and a semi-elliptic spring for supporting the body, of a suitable standard rigidly engaged to the axle and extending up there from, and a series of hooks on said standard, to which the end of said spring is engaged, said hooks open toward said standard and each successive hook projecting beyond the vertical line of the hook next below it, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specifica tion in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT D. SCOTT.

\Vitnesses:

W. H. CHAMBERLIN, L. A. DOELTZ. 

